Cheques going out of fashion ?

[RogerS]

I think I get what you are saying Roger. If I were to log onto my bank for instance, then someone with a sniffer may well be able to catch my details.

Is that what you are saying?

And if this is an issue, what are the alternatives? How secure is mobile broadband using the mobile phone networks?

I think we may be getting way off topic here. maybe we should start another thread.

regards

Brian

It's only an issue for sites that do not have a secure connection such as the one you get when you access an https site. So any finance site will be fine as will most ecommerce sites. Ok - you're still potentially vulnerable to a 'man-in-the-middle' attack but the risks of this happening are much much lower than someone sniffing the data out of the ether when you access a normal http site.

You're right....we're off topic!